Jimmy Cross - The Ballad Of James Bong -(1965)

Jimmy Cross is better known for his "I Want My Baby Back" cult classic. This song The Ballad Of James Bong never made the charts but should be a classic as it is funny. I not only own the 45 record in the video but I also own the original acetate master that you see in the video as well. This acetate was bought at Tollie Records at an auction after they went bankrupt over 40 years ago.

Even though this song Ballad of James Bong never made the charts,it was however played on the Dr Demento Show many years ago!!

NOTE: I made 2 different versions of this video.This version is just the one song,the other video plays both sides of the record. http://youtu.be/be0jz_hAvbc

Jimmy Cross (17 November 1938 - 8 October 1978) was an American radio producer and singer who attained a minor Billboard Hot 100 hit with the novelty song "I Want My Baby Back" in 1965.
He was born in Dothan, Alabama[citation needed], and became the producer of the syndicated radio series Country Concert.
"I Want My Baby Back" was originally issued on the Tollie label and reached #92 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1965. The song is a parody of teenage death records of that period, particularly The Shangri-Las hit "Leader of the Pack". It has since become a cult classic as a result of frequent airplay on the Dr. Demento show. The singer narrates a traffic crash initially similar to the one described in J. Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss", but is revealed to be another angle of the fatal crash at the climax of "Leader of the Pack"; the singer is the sole survivor, and his girlfriend was fatally dismembered by the impact ("Over there was my baby.. and over there was my baby.. and way over there was my baby"). After months of unabated grief, the distraught singer, in an apparent fit of insanity, decides that he is going to have his girl back "one way or another". With realistic sound effects, he unearths her grave, crawls into her coffin, and closes the lid for a muffled final chorus of "I Got My Baby Back." In 1977 British BBC radio DJ Kenny Everett named "I Want My Baby Back" #1 in the "Bottom 30" after a public vote, and it won the title of: "The World's Worst Record". It also was included on The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records, a 1983 collection of poorly performed songs.
Cross went on to record "The Ballad of James Bong" (Tollie), "Hey Little Girl" (Red Bird) and "Super-Duper Man" (Red Bird). He also wrote a song for Françoise Hardy titled "Pourtant tu m'aimes" in 1964.[citation needed] He died of a heart attack at the age of 39 in Hollywood. He is buried at Forest Lawn, California.

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[HargroveFilms1]

This guy was creative with a neat sense of humor.

[siempre33]

that's pretty funny Ray....

[ALogTV]

I was wondering what he looked like!